ESG
Sustainability / ESG Reporting in Practice
The real-world playbook for producing an ESG or sustainability report
About this course
Why this course exists
A practitioner-led course on how ESG and sustainability reporting actually gets done - from the first client call to the final designed PDF. Covers the end-to-end workflow, data collection, writing craft, stakeholder management, materiality, design, QA, and the hard-won lessons that textbooks don't teach. Built for newcomers entering the field and first-time consultants who need to know what to expect, what to ask, and what will go wrong.
What you will learn
After this course you will be able to
- Run a double materiality assessment that meets CSRD and ESRS expectations
- Map an organization to GRI Universal Standards, SASB, ESRS, and TCFD without overlap
- Build a sustainability data management process that supports external assurance
- Publish a board-ready sustainability report that holds up to regulator and investor scrutiny
Course content
8 modules · 33 lessons
Walk through the modules in order or jump to a specific lesson. Each lesson is a real chapter you can open and start reading immediately.
Module 1·4 lessons
Why Companies Report & How to Begin
Understanding the purpose, the players, and the kickoff
Module 2·3 lessons
The Standards Landscape
A high-level map of frameworks you'll encounter
Module 3·3 lessons
Peer Benchmarking & Materiality
Research that shapes the entire report
Module 4·5 lessons
Data Collection & The Data Requirement Sheet
The hardest part of the entire process
- 3.16 min read
Building & Sharing the Data Requirement Template
- 3.28 min read
Working with Departments: HR, Operations, Finance & Beyond
- 3.39 min read
When Data Doesn't Come: Escalation & the Force of Hierarchy
- 3.49 min read
Data Sanity Checks: The Practitioner's Checklist
- 3.59 min read
Version Control & Avoiding the Data Disaster
Module 5·3 lessons
Structuring the Report
Table of contents, blueprint, and setting the theme
Module 6·7 lessons
Writing the Report
The craft of turning data and chaos into a coherent story
- 5.17 min read
The Writing Method: Questions First, Answers Second
- 5.27 min read
About the Report, Boundary & Chairman's Message
- 5.38 min read
Writing the Environmental Section
- 5.48 min read
Writing the Social Section
- 5.58 min read
Writing the Governance Section
- 5.68 min read
Flow, Language & Narrative-Data Balance
- 5.710 min read
Using AI to Write (Without Producing AI Slop)
Module 7·4 lessons
Revisions, QA & the GRI Content Index
From draft to print-ready
Module 8·4 lessons
Design, Delivery & What Comes After
Making it look right and getting it out the door
Continue your path
This course is part of 2 curated paths
Each path is a sequence of five courses designed to take a practitioner from first principles to defensible output. Pick one to see where this course fits.